Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 18

BEDTIME STORIE Finds a Prize. Who knows Just how to use his eyes Will seldom lack for a surprise. —~Farmer Brown's Boy. Farmer Brown's Boy, with Bowser the Hound and Flip the Terrier, was out for a walk. He had gone through the Old Orchard to the edge of the Green Forest and then had turned to follow the edge of the Green Forest, keeping just outside-of it. Now, right N NV HE KNEW RIGHT AWAY WHAT IT WAS. along the edge of the Green Forest grew bushes of varicus kinds, some of them quite tall. In places there were bramble tangles. In other places young trees thrust their way up through the bushes. You know it was really the Green Forest trying to work its way | out onto the Green Meadows, The eyes of Farmer Brown's Boy are . Not only are they sharp, but he has learned how to use them. He OUR DESIRE FOR TRAVELIG _ CAME FROM GETTING TO THE z:nv OPERY HousE O LY /N THE OLD DAYS, oM, BY THORNTON W. BURGESS | kept & sharp eye out for these cocoons. | | On a young wild cherry tree he found | a number. They looked like rolled, dried leaves. | So it was that presently ahead of him he noticed a big, gray object in one of the bushes. It seemed to be st a little higher than his head. It was just the color of the old fence rails, He knew right away what it was. He remembered that last Summer he had seen it there when he was looking | for birds' nests, but that it had been very small then. He had not been over that way—that is, not at that particular | place—since last Summer, and so he had forgotten all about this thing. “My goodness!” exclaimed Farmer “Those bald-faced hori Brown's Boy. | nets certainly did build a big nest. | must have a look at that.” Now, hornets are really wasps, you know, and this nest toward which Farmer Brown's Boy was hurrying was like a great, gray globe made of a sort of gray paper, which the wasps them- selves had made. It had been their Summer home. It was made of several layers of this paper material. The wasps had made this paper by biting tiny fibers of dead wood from old rails and trees and buildings, and working this in_their mouths until it had be- come this gray paper. Some of these nests are very wonderful. This one that Farmer Brown's Boy had found was a particularly nice one. “That is one of the biggest and best | nests I have ever seen,” said Farmer Brown'’s Boy, talking to Bowser the Hound and Flip. “There must have been a lot of hornets in it last Summer. | Yes, siree, there must have been a lot of them! But they are not there now. Most of them die when cold weather comes and those that do not die hide away in cracks and crevices and in buildings to spend the Winter. Then when Spring comes each one starts a new colony. That's what makes it safe to take one of these big, paper castles into the house. This one is a dandy THE EVE some one else has designed.| With no thought of me. has some strange eraftsman wrought. Our civilization has ruvined crestion —— 1 spose even this is v second-hand thought. tw;.... WHAT? ANOTHER ) I WouLd i 11 MY Jsf sue F.I:Hll Jeff Is the World's Leading ALL R 7 PoLicE STATIoN FOR QUESTIONING RS 1 LoNG RS You INSIST 1 KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT PLERSE REMOVE THIS BRACELET! 1 DONT WANT To DISGRACE THE ™ BuY TWO i NICE SEEDS. NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. WHCOPEE -+ WE HAVE OUR RAIL READ TICKETS, Anp Ive JUST DRAVN CUT OuUR. # 500 DELIEVE ME, wE'LL| HELLO GOORY BOWERS ' WHAT ARE [ SUCH A HUR! For ? " Ny ware WE'RE LEAVING FOR PaLM BEAH N A i COUPLE OF HOURS . FOR ME = C, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1930. PALM BEACH, Hey T you'RE FLYIN' KIND OF HIoW, AneT You Boy 7 WELL BEwmE AY You'RE SO FLUSH, HOW ABOUT PAYWE ME THAT 1S WATNG [/ GRERT SCOTT. Twvs \§ A SURPRI\SE -~ & LETTER. FROM OLD JACK PEPPER - TRUST THAT OLo ICAMPRAGNER. TO KNOW HOW AND WHERE To FIND ME-~ AND TS \S AL ABOUY ANWE - RUNNER = 'M GETTING MORE LEYTERS LNTELN THAN A MOV\E WERO - NO, T WANT WO OAK SEEDS. T WANT T PLANT THEM N FRoNT WHAT KIND OF SEEDS? PUMPKIN, ANISEED, SUNFLOWER, ELAXSEED, BIRDSEED oR ke WELL, COUNTESS, IT's CUSTOMARY To HANDCUFF ALL PRISONERS — BUT T GRANT YOUR 2 Z D HT, OFFICER - T'LL €0 To THE a/“' “l:‘»:ga\;onos 7 sy 22> NoBoDY L THE MISSING JUDEE — BUT - BSOS - THES FINE AND WAPPY WERE GOWG BACK - T\;E AND HEALCTHN - GO\NG TO SCHOOL NOW = SANDY 10 \S WELL = O, BOM ~boes TABT MBKRE ME FEEL @OOD 1, NOW \ CAN GC e o Xy N HES OC\_M CONSC\ENCE - AND WELL FINSH J08 WERE I|F \T TAKE SIX MONTHS ~ NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW -~ LISTEN! WiLL WHY, THOSC ACORNS ;eu'wea':‘ss THeY ik € GRow T BIG,| BE THe BI You wWANT ACORNS, SIR. MY OWN EYES! #) ANY GIRL WHO STROLLS Down MAIN STREET ARM N ARM WITH ANOTHER MAN, o T o WINDY AND Te COUNTESS! REQUEST ! % QUIBBLEFENDER SURE CAN'T CARE knows how ‘to see things. He knows |and I'm going to take it home.” what to look for and where to look.| Farmer Brown's Boy got out his| BSo there is not a great deal that he , knife and opened it. Then he cut the | misses. He knew that in those bushes | branch to which this big, gray nest he might find the cocoons of certain | was fastened. And as he cut it some- big moths. So as he went along he | thing happened. Daily Cross-Word Puzzle aad Addda HE AWNN RILEY FAMILY BY HAVING THE NEIGHBORS SEE THEIR SON'S FIANCEE' UNDER ARREST! COME ALONG ! MUCH FOR HER FIANCE = V7777777777 vt GEen Taving ON TheSE U /// ___ ure preseruers AND s “\ You CAN GO RIGHT uP To ThE CAPTAIN ANO g THAT \F THE SHIP SINKS L WONT WEAR TWIS LIFE-PRESERVER-] \T'S MILES Too BIG FOR ME, M A SIGRT IN T 217/ o8 FREEMAN Here's" Trouble. 1 Culmination. 5 Ribbed fabric. 8 A Greek letter. 13 Type of boat. 14 Ostrich-like bird. 15 Measurements of length. 16 Mahometan nymph. 17 Dealers in hats. 19 Artlessly. 21 A musical instrument. 22 House animals. 23 Lower. 24 Season of fasting. 25 An Engiish school. 27 Exhaust. 29 A river in Switzerland. 32 An insect. 33 Flog. 37 Muscular contraction. 39 Greasy stain. 40 Pay. 43 Pronoun. 45 Color. 46 Square measurement. 47 Prove. 49 Admonish. 52 Covetous person. 54 Deer. 58 Old. 59 Scientist of the stars. 61 One who takes care of.a collection of books, 64 Slumber. 65 Girl's name. 66 Spruce. 67 A grecting 68 A river in Arabia. 69 Implements for cutting. Down. 4 A kind of narrative poetry. 5 Remainder. 6 Gives out. 7 Fowls. 8 Friend, i French. 9 A floor covering. 10 First-year West Pointer. 11 A bird. 12 Piece of property. 13 Vessel. 18 Poetry to be sung. 20 Black. 26 More insipid. 28 Flowers. 29 An animal. 30 Fitting. 31 Hindu title. 34 A color. 35 Joyful. 36 Before. 38 Space between curves of arches. 41 District of Indla. 42 Field flowers, 43 Severer, 44 Person distinguished for his valor. 48 Part of the body. 49 Senator from Massachusetts. 50 Lively. 51 Revolt. 53 Part of a barrel. 55 A quartz. 56 Reposes. 57 Three-spot. 60 A river in Russia. 62 Mountain in the Philippines. WOW DOES IT KNOW HOW MUCH \T / AN A CANARY EATS 1TS OWN WEIGHT IN FOOD EVERY BEAUTIFUL AN THEY NEVER | TAKE ANY SINGI LESSONS! Ot CARRIED A B16 GUN- 91 HE WAS ALLUS Ané%gflw?s BuT ON; PIECE. AN’ KEPT 'EM ON TH' RUNL R 1S BIGGER'N TH' 7 )il [ : OTHER 'UNJ, 4 s SALY /750 WELL SEE ALAS, ALACK . MOURNFULLY SIGHED INSPECT HAWKSHIRE, MY CHANCES TO BECOME A HERO AR/ FATED INDEED *__"WHN 2", GARRULOLSLY INGUIRED 7 LORD TWICKELSHANKS .. ' WHY 2. WHY, 1 THREW A DROWNING SUICIDE A ROPE; SOBBED OUR HERO. AN.. AND. HE HUNG HIMSELF - WITH T e On a Prison Ship. ‘The French prison ship La Martin- 1 Soiitar fere on its recent semi-annual voyags A | to Cayenne or Devil's Island, as it is ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE | more commonly known, carried the lar- | gest and most conspicuous passenger | list in its history. There were neariy 700 men on board, including several | rather distinguished persons who had become involved in capital offenses. Most of the “passengers” were housed | in four great cages with accommoda- tions for the warder in the center where all are under his watchful eye In case of any attempt to mutiny the warder can turn on a jet of steani which is calculated to subdue any such outbreak in a few seconds. 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